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his decision to participate in the expansion of medicaid under obama care. it may be christie's problems are deeper than this. vetters were stunned by garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record. there was a 2010 department of justice inspector general's investigation of christie's spending patterns in his job prior to the governorship. there was a fact christie worked as a lobbyist on behalf of securities industry association at a time when bernie madoff was a senior fia official. cyst y's decision to steer contracts to donors and political allies like former attorney general john ashcroft. then there was todd christie, the governor's brother who in 2008 agreed to a settlement of civil charges by the securities & exchange commission. then again, if skeletons in christie closet derail his ambitions, it's clear there are plenty of flavors to choose electric. >> christie is very liberal. he could run as a democrat. >> i believe he is plain vanilla. ted cruz is rooty tooty fresh and fraughty. he's got fire, angst. the republican party needs somebo
his decision to participate in the expansion of medicaid under obama care. it may be christie's problems are deeper than this. vetters were stunned by garish controversies lurking in the shadows of his record. there was a 2010 department of justice inspector general's investigation of christie's spending patterns in his job prior to the governorship. there was a fact christie worked as a lobbyist on behalf of securities industry association at a time when bernie madoff was a senior fia...
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obama care is not enough. and now i think for the first time, virginians might actually experience obama care fully applied in good faith. the current governor declined the medicaid funding from the obama administration, and now the man who won last night wants to use that money to expand health care to 400,000 virginians. that's roughly a fifth of the people who voted yesterday. and a policy helping that many people could end up being pretty popular too. that does it for "the cycle." jonathan capehart is in for martin
obama care is not enough. and now i think for the first time, virginians might actually experience obama care fully applied in good faith. the current governor declined the medicaid funding from the obama administration, and now the man who won last night wants to use that money to expand health care to 400,000 virginians. that's roughly a fifth of the people who voted yesterday. and a policy helping that many people could end up being pretty popular too. that does it for "the cycle."...
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hear obama saying this tonight. you are not talking about the penalty setting in until three months into next year. a long time for now. i think this is going to be a contested thing in the media and politics. into next year, next january, february, march. if you get to february/march talking sizable enrollees and young, healthy people who make this, who will make the competitive pricing behind this is a reality. if you get to the point. yeah, republicans need to move on to something else. there will be a consensus at media level, yeah this phase worked. >> alex, joy, going to hang in for more stuff. you got stuff to do. you, you. >> yeah, i think steve and joy are hanging in here. i turn to a pumpkin. precisely 10:00 whatever minute. >> okay. president obama will address the reports he didn't want to keep joe biden as his runningmate for a second term. and the backlash against chris christie begins in his own party, of course. as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business cred
hear obama saying this tonight. you are not talking about the penalty setting in until three months into next year. a long time for now. i think this is going to be a contested thing in the media and politics. into next year, next january, february, march. if you get to february/march talking sizable enrollees and young, healthy people who make this, who will make the competitive pricing behind this is a reality. if you get to the point. yeah, republicans need to move on to something else....
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pass brown and john allen point out, obama's response shows how much the dynamic between obama and insurance companies have shifted since the law passed and how their fates have being intertwined. health care expands coverage to millions of americans sending them into the insurance market with tax subsidies forcing the president and former nemesis into an uneasy partnership only beginning to gain strength. we're seeing cracks in the armor over dropped koncht the president and emsears saying, listen, we set out the guidelines. the insurance companies decided to send you these notes. in some of these, they are trying to upsell people to more expensive plans. that relationship seems like it's only going to get more frustrated the further we get into all this. >> another aspect there's been reportinging especially in rural areas, the whole principle behind the exchange is competition. multiple insurance offering plans to people, bring prices down. in rural areas so far preliminary evidence there isn't a lot of choice, aren't a lot of insurance companies with plans especially rural areas in other
pass brown and john allen point out, obama's response shows how much the dynamic between obama and insurance companies have shifted since the law passed and how their fates have being intertwined. health care expands coverage to millions of americans sending them into the insurance market with tax subsidies forcing the president and former nemesis into an uneasy partnership only beginning to gain strength. we're seeing cracks in the armor over dropped koncht the president and emsears saying,...
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the really issue of the day is obama care. it's the president of the united states who stood up in front of people for literally years who said if you like your policy, you can keep it. one of the interesting things that you had on earlier, the president said he was working very, very hard moving people into the middle class. that's another trust issue this president has. the numbers came out today and unemployment is up and you are seeing the under. and those who quit looking up to 13.8% now. it has been this president's policy over the course of the last five years that have driven people out of the middle class. the trust issue that you hit on, i think that is the big for the president. americans do not trust barack obama. >> let me ask you about health care. the jobs numbers are good today. we added almost 300,000 jobs we didn't know we had. and some revisions. >> these numbers are dismal. when you think there is approaching 14% of the people underemployed, obama care is moving people to the -- i should say the partially e
the really issue of the day is obama care. it's the president of the united states who stood up in front of people for literally years who said if you like your policy, you can keep it. one of the interesting things that you had on earlier, the president said he was working very, very hard moving people into the middle class. that's another trust issue this president has. the numbers came out today and unemployment is up and you are seeing the under. and those who quit looking up to 13.8% now....
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the rollout of obama care, the challenges of that rollout as well. luke russert traveling with the president there in new orleans, want to bring him in. luke, let's talk about the president's speech there. what else struck you? >> reporter: well, craig, what was fascinating was that this speech was billed as one that was going to be a pivot, he wanted to talk about the economy. he wanted to talk about infrastructure and wanted to sort of what we thought was move away from talking about the health care law, which has been politically unpopular recently because of that -- you got it, you like it, you keep it promise back in 2010 which was not necessarily kept. as we learned from our interview with chalk todd yesterday. then unexpectantly after touting more money put into ports like ports of new orleans, he issued a full throated defense of the health care law using talk points similar to 2010. the reason it needs to exist, we all pay more when folks go to the emergency room. then saying he would have loved to fix the website himself, joking he didn't k
the rollout of obama care, the challenges of that rollout as well. luke russert traveling with the president there in new orleans, want to bring him in. luke, let's talk about the president's speech there. what else struck you? >> reporter: well, craig, what was fascinating was that this speech was billed as one that was going to be a pivot, he wanted to talk about the economy. he wanted to talk about infrastructure and wanted to sort of what we thought was move away from talking about...
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he beat cuccinelli by three points by using the obama 2o 12 playbook. he ran up the score especially in the washington suburbs. in suburb and richmond, democratic state senator easily beat the republican winning the contest by double-digits. the attorney general's race remains too close to call with 99% of the vote in. the democrat mark herring leads them by just over 600 votes. in virginia we do this in the attorney general races a lot these days. bob mcdonald had the nail biter like that. they can request a recount if it's less than 1% of the vote. we will see a rebound in that race. chris christie won reelection in a landslide with 60% of the vote in a state that the president won by 17 points. new york city will have the first democratic mayor in two decad decades. the 109th mayor by a big margin and they chose a progressive path. you got that right. in boston, marty walsh will precede the longest serving mayor. the city councilman with the support of organized labor. here's one should you know about. they -elected the first white mayor in nearly fo
he beat cuccinelli by three points by using the obama 2o 12 playbook. he ran up the score especially in the washington suburbs. in suburb and richmond, democratic state senator easily beat the republican winning the contest by double-digits. the attorney general's race remains too close to call with 99% of the vote in. the democrat mark herring leads them by just over 600 votes. in virginia we do this in the attorney general races a lot these days. bob mcdonald had the nail biter like that....
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weekend the last thing we heard was that as you put it, a full throated defense of what we call now obama care and the president also joking if and when it becomes successful, folks on the other side are going to be calling it by another name. it seems as if we saw a real deliberate shift in strategy, no? >> reporter: yeah, i think what we're seeing is that -- what came out of chuck's interview yesterday, craig, and a lot of today was this whole idea of an apology, that the president was apologizing for the health care law. that's the way the gop was spinning it. by coming out and having the full throated defense by saying this is a good law and we still very much believe in it and need, here are the benefits of it and putting that forward, it kind of shifts the narrative from the apology for the law which is being spun if you didn't do that outright, apologized for the folks with individuals policies who got -- weren't able to keep them. it's a strategy that is intentional and being done to control the narrative better into the weekend. and as the president moves on now, he's going down
weekend the last thing we heard was that as you put it, a full throated defense of what we call now obama care and the president also joking if and when it becomes successful, folks on the other side are going to be calling it by another name. it seems as if we saw a real deliberate shift in strategy, no? >> reporter: yeah, i think what we're seeing is that -- what came out of chuck's interview yesterday, craig, and a lot of today was this whole idea of an apology, that the president was...
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can start with obama care. chris christie as governor accepted medicaid expansion that will not play well with the republican primary voters. he has spoken on favor of the assault weapons ban. he is receptive off to immigration reform. things look those. but primarily. i think the main hurdle he will have. you can correct me if you think i am wrong. he has been cooperative with barack obama that. took place after the touchdown of hurricane sandy. for a lot of conservatives, including rush limbaugh should mention, the media shouldn't pick candidates. he is a member of the candidates. rush limbaugh and others that was a problem. he was there with president obama up to the election date in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. a hurdle that will be immense for him when he goes through the republican prescribe marry process. >> hillary clinton as the democratic nominee as against possibly a christie nominee. what would that look like? what would the him ear campaign be pointing out about christie? >> huh, well, what ar
can start with obama care. chris christie as governor accepted medicaid expansion that will not play well with the republican primary voters. he has spoken on favor of the assault weapons ban. he is receptive off to immigration reform. things look those. but primarily. i think the main hurdle he will have. you can correct me if you think i am wrong. he has been cooperative with barack obama that. took place after the touchdown of hurricane sandy. for a lot of conservatives, including rush...
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. >> this race came down to the wire because of obama care. that message will go out across america tonight. >> at a time when washington was often broken, just think about what virginia has been able to accomplish when we work together. >> round two, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius is back on capitol hill tampering expectations, admitting the tech team faces an uphill battle to meet its end of the month deadline to fix the health care site. but the problems go beyond the glitches. the president's broken promise if you like your plan, you can keep it, continues to haunt the white house. >> i'd just like to ask you a simple true or false question. is that statement on the white house website true or is it false? >> sir, i think the statement is -- >> is it true or is it false? >>> and good day, everyone. i'm kristen welker in for andrea mitchell. both republicans and democrats woke up this morning with a win to brag about, but what do the victories by chris christie and terry mcauliffe mean for political battles around the corner? joining me no
. >> this race came down to the wire because of obama care. that message will go out across america tonight. >> at a time when washington was often broken, just think about what virginia has been able to accomplish when we work together. >> round two, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius is back on capitol hill tampering expectations, admitting the tech team faces an uphill battle to meet its end of the month deadline to fix the health care site. but the problems go beyond the...
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jobs are topping president obama's agenda today. right now he's aboard air force one on his way to new orleans where he'll talk about boosting u.s. exports. of course the economy was the number one issue on the minds of voters in new jersey and virginia, as they went to the polls this tuesday. reaction now to today's jobs report from the white house. jason furman is chairman of the council of economic advisers. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning, chris. >> you're smiling. i guess you're happy with these numbers. is it about what you expected? >> you know, you're always happy when the economy is creating jobs. october was more confusing. as you said, you saw job creation but saw the unemployment rate ticking up. i think the thing that was clearest and most exciting to us in these data were that august and september were revised up. it now looks like we were creating about 200,000 jobs a month. so going into the shutdown, the economy was in a stronger place than people thought previously. >> as you well know, the white hou
jobs are topping president obama's agenda today. right now he's aboard air force one on his way to new orleans where he'll talk about boosting u.s. exports. of course the economy was the number one issue on the minds of voters in new jersey and virginia, as they went to the polls this tuesday. reaction now to today's jobs report from the white house. jason furman is chairman of the council of economic advisers. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning, chris. >> you're...
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obama care's not that. nowhere near that. >> and i thought the most incisive point the president made was he said everybody's acting as if the insurance market has been working for all these years. >> right. >> all of a sudden these $50 a month plan that have massive deductibles, that don't cover hospitalization all of a sudden now losing that could cost you your life? the president made a very good point which is -- he didn't make it too long. >> we'll have to hold it there. don't go anywhere. much more on this exclusive interview next. he does laundry, and i do the cleaning. there's only two of us... how much dirt can we manufacture? more than you think. very little. [ doorbell rings ] [ lee ] let's have a look, morty. it's a sweeper. what's this? what's that? well we'll find out. we'll find out. [ lee ] it goes under all the way to the back wall. i came in under the assumption that it was clean. i've been living in a fool's paradise! oh boy... there you go... morty just summed it up. the next 44 years we
obama care's not that. nowhere near that. >> and i thought the most incisive point the president made was he said everybody's acting as if the insurance market has been working for all these years. >> right. >> all of a sudden these $50 a month plan that have massive deductibles, that don't cover hospitalization all of a sudden now losing that could cost you your life? the president made a very good point which is -- he didn't make it too long. >> we'll have to hold it...
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christie wants to expand medicaid under obama care. in virginia, you have really the loudest opponent of obama care defeat, go down to defeat, and now that state might also expand medicaid. so if virginia is kind of the national bellwether for politics, and i think it bodes well for obama care, particularly if those exchanges start working. >> michael, "the daily beast" called it revenge of the rhinos for chris christie, but there are going to be a number of obstacles, a number of hurdles that a chris christie would have to jump if he is going to be the gop nominee in 2016. >> yeah, he's very conservative. nobody should be mistaken about that. but he's not really tea party. you know, emotionally and so forth. so he -- he is going to be in the middle of that brawl if he becomes the establishment candidate. two other things, though, from new jersey. the exit poll result that showed him still losing to hillary clinton 48-44 even while racking up this huge victory i think is problematic for him and also the minimum wage increase passed in
christie wants to expand medicaid under obama care. in virginia, you have really the loudest opponent of obama care defeat, go down to defeat, and now that state might also expand medicaid. so if virginia is kind of the national bellwether for politics, and i think it bodes well for obama care, particularly if those exchanges start working. >> michael, "the daily beast" called it revenge of the rhinos for chris christie, but there are going to be a number of obstacles, a number...
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people in those states did not like president obama in the first place, did not like obama care in the second place and now you have to defend a law people hoped it would anyway. >> the exit polls showed slightly more people blamed republicans versus president obama. mcauliffe won the washington suburbs big, where obviously a lot of those federal workers live. >> actually, yes. when i looked at the nbc map, the red/blue, most of virginia was red. mcauliffe won on the strength of northern virginia and a few more democratic pockets in the state, which is instructive. you always say turnout is the key in an election and the northern suburbs helped carry mcauliffe. one other quick thing, though, chris about the impact of obama care glitches next year, if it's fixed, it will be minimal impact. may have a play in some primaries. if a candidate is elected in a republican primary, tea party candidate going real heavy against obama care, then by september,october, november, it's working just fine, that might produce a candidate that is just much easier for a democrat to defeat in a true swing d
people in those states did not like president obama in the first place, did not like obama care in the second place and now you have to defend a law people hoped it would anyway. >> the exit polls showed slightly more people blamed republicans versus president obama. mcauliffe won the washington suburbs big, where obviously a lot of those federal workers live. >> actually, yes. when i looked at the nbc map, the red/blue, most of virginia was red. mcauliffe won on the strength of...
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they think if they keep saying obama care, obama care, obama care, they're going to win these things. now, in that exit poll last night, only 24% of people said obama care was the most important issue. and those folks basically split down the middle. what i think undid cuccinelli was that he's out of the mainstream, he lost moderates by a huge margin. he relied on the notion that the romney campaign relied on, that, for example, there was going to be a falloff in african-american turnout. african-americans actually turned out to be 20% of the electorate, a higher percent of the electorate than they are of the population. >> you know, matt, about cuccinelli's loss, you write the story we tell ourselves could have major implications. so if cuccinelli said that this was a referendum on obama care, what's the story republicans are telling themselves about his defeat? >> well, look, i think right now there is a campaign to assign blame. and so the tea party folks are blaming the establishment, right? the rnc four years ago gave $9 million to bob mcdonnell. this year they only gave $3 milli
they think if they keep saying obama care, obama care, obama care, they're going to win these things. now, in that exit poll last night, only 24% of people said obama care was the most important issue. and those folks basically split down the middle. what i think undid cuccinelli was that he's out of the mainstream, he lost moderates by a huge margin. he relied on the notion that the romney campaign relied on, that, for example, there was going to be a falloff in african-american turnout....
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it is not with obama care. two issues here. what obama care pretends to do, the second is how it goes about doing this. you have the former cio of the government saying, look, they employed 1960s technology instead of using a cloud, they used 800 different servers, 55 different vendors involved in this. nobody would dare create a system that way, but yet the government decided to do it that way. ronald reagan famously said, i'm from the government, i'm here to help. people read the owe becabama ca nightmare stories and it perpetuates a belief that the government, given its control of something, will inevitably screw it up. >> there is something about, like, a bureaucracy in general, does screw things up. whether it is government bureaucracy or big private companies, because i worked in enough big private companies where it takes three weeks to get somebody to say, yeah, we're working on that, the memo will be out next week. but i wonder how -- if the issues were -- you're describing there with the website get resolved and i bel
it is not with obama care. two issues here. what obama care pretends to do, the second is how it goes about doing this. you have the former cio of the government saying, look, they employed 1960s technology instead of using a cloud, they used 800 different servers, 55 different vendors involved in this. nobody would dare create a system that way, but yet the government decided to do it that way. ronald reagan famously said, i'm from the government, i'm here to help. people read the owe becabama...
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obama is actually expected to mention it yesterday. he decided not to, but it's definitely the obama administration and democrats' efforts to put out new markers to give the american people a sense they do have an agenda going forward however much republicans try to obstruct it. that's the message you expect to hear in 2014. >> emily, the president saying he's sorry this week in the interview with chuck todd regarding people losing their current health care plans under this obama carrollout. what is the white house strategy going forward. >> working very hard on the technical glitches first of all. president obama wished he could do the code and fix the problems himself. so someone somewhere is working on that code, you can be sure. they're also trying to sort of move on to other topics, as well talking about the economy yesterday, talking about infrastructure, talking about immigration. so the white house strategy here is to also rebuff calls even by democrats to move the deadline for signing up. they're really thinking they can get t
obama is actually expected to mention it yesterday. he decided not to, but it's definitely the obama administration and democrats' efforts to put out new markers to give the american people a sense they do have an agenda going forward however much republicans try to obstruct it. that's the message you expect to hear in 2014. >> emily, the president saying he's sorry this week in the interview with chuck todd regarding people losing their current health care plans under this obama...
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they said if -- >> they talked about obama care. >> the plan was to start talking about obama care two weeks earlier than they did. when they had the shut down strategy, it blue up the cuccinelli campaign's plan for the closing month. they are exactly right. if they had not taken on the strategy that we said was going to fail, ken cuccinelli would be governor right now. >> i don't disagree. >> we are coming back to detroit. >> this is looking better now. >> the monthly jobs report is due out with live coverage and offers of a new book featuring unique ag turnatives for putting them back to work. you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 70% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully be
they said if -- >> they talked about obama care. >> the plan was to start talking about obama care two weeks earlier than they did. when they had the shut down strategy, it blue up the cuccinelli campaign's plan for the closing month. they are exactly right. if they had not taken on the strategy that we said was going to fail, ken cuccinelli would be governor right now. >> i don't disagree. >> we are coming back to detroit. >> this is looking better now. >>...
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and ron said his young daughter signed up for obama care. the program is only to sustain itself if young healthy people pay into the system otherwise the whole premise of the idea false terrifies. we should find more governors to allow them to sign up under medicaid. you create financial stress and put greater stress on the system. you need younger information sign. the focus is stop it right now. under what's gone wrong. whether it takes four months, six months they should do that. limping along serves no real purpose. i was talking to a ceo of a coin detroit yesterday, decent size company, emblois 400 people i don't understand how this is to work. we don't understand long term what the costs will be. he's a democrat and wants to be supportive. for three reasons -- >> totally agree. ron, i just think that the medicaid story is just another sign of how difficult this process has been. this is a party that had a group of people that held the government hostage to try and get rid of a law that was passed by the government and approved by the s
and ron said his young daughter signed up for obama care. the program is only to sustain itself if young healthy people pay into the system otherwise the whole premise of the idea false terrifies. we should find more governors to allow them to sign up under medicaid. you create financial stress and put greater stress on the system. you need younger information sign. the focus is stop it right now. under what's gone wrong. whether it takes four months, six months they should do that. limping...